Oxbow Western Timothy Hay Small Animal Food

This has been my go-to order for several years of having guinea pigs, and I love the large size since guinea pigs sure do go through a bunch of hay for being tiny fur potatoes. But the past four or so orders that I have gotten have been far more dusty and just generally of lesser quality. My girls are leaving much more of the hay uneaten, and I have encountered little pieces of what I assume is blue twine from the bales being tied together that have gotten mixed in with my hay. I am still confident in most other oxbow products for my girls, and I understand that their quality control for larger portions like the 50 pound box just might be more difficult, but with the dusty factor and the bits This has been my go-to order for several years of having guinea pigs, and I love the large size since guinea pigs sure do go through a bunch of hay for being tiny fur potatoes. But the past four or so orders that I have gotten have been far more dusty and just generally of lesser quality. My girls are leaving much more of the hay uneaten, and I have encountered little pieces of what I assume is blue twine from the bales being tied together that have gotten mixed in with my hay. I am still confident in most other oxbow products for my girls, and I understand that their quality control for larger portions like the 50 pound box just might be more difficult, but with the dusty factor and the bits of twine I have found, I think I will be looking for a different brand of hay for my three girls. Hope this helps someone! :) … more

Usually, I get high quality hay from oxbow, but this time the whole box was all very dull and extremely dusty. My rabbit has been eating it for a few days and his poop is much darker compared to the golden color it was on the last box, which confirms to me that it’s lower quality. I’ll probably go back to buying the smaller quantities because those bags seem more consistent and higher quality. I do wish the bigger boxes were better so I could stock up more efficiently and with less waste.

This is my first time ordering Oxbow's hay, I was a bit nervous to try the 50lb considering the mixed reviews but it turned out okay. Shipping was fast, the hay is very green (I think there were brown strands here and there but not that much, big upgrade from my local farm where half of it was brown hay he won't eat), and he especially likes the seed heads. My main issue was that it's pretty dusty and choppy pieces, but he does eat it. It's only his first day trying it so I'll have to see if we'll stick with it or change to SPS.

I could just be used to orchard grass but I felt that my piggy would've gotten a hay poke if I hadn't been paying attention to how rough the hay felt. This is my second bag of Timothy so I guess this one was just a bad harvest? Watch out for your piggies!

This hay is all stems that my pigs won’t eat, what a waste of money. I only got this box as the 2nd cut hay I normally get is for some reason no longer carried by Chewy. I will order from somewhere else before I get this box, sorry chewy you lost me on this one.

I feed this hay to my two guinea pigs and they seem to enjoy it quite well. I buy the 9lbs box around once a month. I will say it can get quite dusty when moving the hay around, so consider taking hay out of the box away from guinea pigs since they tend to be very dust sensitive. I like that the 9lbs box has a bag containing the hay within to help cut down on the mess some. I haven’t had any issues with quality and I’ve gotten this box twice now. Definitely a better deal than buying in stores.

In terms of prices, 50 is clearly the best price, but as you can guess, it can be full of yellow hay. Not bad. I couldn't tell you how much bad hay is in there, but even if it 60% yellow hay, it still the best price. But! I have barely seen yellow hay in the 90oz bag. And in term of price to green hay, it's great! It about 5 pounds of hay, so it last 0.5 to 1.5 months. Depends on if you have 1 or 2 rabbits or how big the rabbit is. So, If you want to be completely cheap. Buy the 50. But if you hate picking out bad hay, then stick with the 90oz.

We've been buying this hay for over a year. It was always slightly inconsistent - some boxes needed more sorting than others. I expect that, and Oxbow tells you that. However, the last 4 months or so the quality has been not great. A few months ago, we got a box with mostly brown. Our rabbit wouldn't eat it, and she's usually a machine. She typically eats more hay than rabbits I had before her. So, Chewy sent me another box and I donated the other one to an animal shelter. The replacement box was fine. It required some sorting but it was mostly ok. The box I just got is the worst I've ever seen. The hay smells weird, the seed pods are hard and almost sticky, the hay was tangled up We've been buying this hay for over a year. It was always slightly inconsistent - some boxes needed more sorting than others. I expect that, and Oxbow tells you that. However, the last 4 months or so the quality has been not great. A few months ago, we got a box with mostly brown. Our rabbit wouldn't eat it, and she's usually a machine. She typically eats more hay than rabbits I had before her. So, Chewy sent me another box and I donated the other one to an animal shelter. The replacement box was fine. It required some sorting but it was mostly ok. The box I just got is the worst I've ever seen. The hay smells weird, the seed pods are hard and almost sticky, the hay was tangled up and didn't separate easily, etc. I tried to dig down in the box and came up with short pieces covered in dusty hay, with equally weird feeling seed pods. I can't even donate this box - it's awful and unusable. Chewy is sending me a replacement box, which I requested to be from a different lot number. I'm crossing my fingers for a decent box to arrive. This is all on Oxbow, but I am disgusted with the fact that Oxbow would package and try to sell something this bad. I guess their quality control has gone out the window. Chewy is handling this well so I'm grateful for that. … more

The hay is decent. The pigs seem to like it. I was getting the 90oz bags previously but it was just so much plastic packaging. I was thinking the box would be plastic free but it’s not. If it was I would keep buying but I’d rather buy plastic free packaged hay.

I was always happy with this product until the past few months. I’ll get a box of hay that’s beautiful and then the next one will be similar to two inch grass clippings and dusty. 3 of the last 6 boxes of Oxbow have been this way. Not the fault of Chewy, but have written to Oxbow. Be careful as twice nice I had young kits develop blocked tear ducts from the dust in the hay.